General Butt Naked : Joshua Blahyi

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When war breaks out, it's common to see soldiers in uniforms, carrying standard issued weapons. In the 1990s, General Butt Naked fought in the Liberian Civil War in only tennis shoes, carrying a machete.

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0:00.0	War can give them the
0:02.0	people into monsters.
0:03.0	Believing someone is an enemy
0:05.0	can give them the idea that killing that person is justified
0:08.0	even when they're innocent civilians.
0:10.0	Most war waged war against men, women, and children alike, wearing nothing but tennis shoes and carrying
0:25.3	a machete. This is monsters. Oh, Joshua Milton Blahy was born on September 30th, 1971 in Monrovia, Liberia.
1:00.6	He was a member of the Kron people who had migrated to the coast in the early 16th century.
1:06.1	The Kron commonly believed in child sacrifice and black magic.
1:10.5	Joshua's father Quete was made priest of the tribe and it was his duty to bless crops,
1:15.3	perform rights and administer cures.
1:18.3	Quitie got married and had a first son who was meant to take on the duties a priest, but when he was introduced to the oracle, he was rejected.
1:27.0	Elizabeth Panto was already married with two children when she was called by the oracle to become one of Quete's wives.
1:34.0	In Joshua's autobiography, The Redemption of an African Warlord, he claimed that he weighed 18 pounds when he was born.
1:42.0	Though it's possible, the heaviest baby ever recorded was born at 22 pounds in 1879,
1:48.0	and the record for the heaviest baby since was 14 pounds 8 ounces.
1:53.0	Like most people I cover who went on to write autobiographies,
1:56.7	most of what they say needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
2:00.2	Quotetti began preparing Joshua for the priesthood immediately.
2:04.0	At seven years old, Joshua was given to several Kron elders who believed he would become a warrior.
2:10.0	What followed was a coronation in a ceremony where Joshua wrote about seeing the God they called Nighagawe.
2:17.0	He said he was 12 feet or 3.6 meters tall with wings and he was covered in bruises.
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